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The Badge on the Wall: How a Fake License Lived Undetected

The Badge on the Wall: How a Fake License Lived Undetected

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The Badge on the Wall: How a Fake License Lived Undetected

Fear that someone wearing your trust might be a fraud: a plastic hospital badge zip-tied to aluminum siding, an expiration date of March 2001, and a woman who practiced clinical psychology for nearly two decades on the basis of a forged doctoral credential-how did that badge stay visible and her practice stay open until a meter reader photographed it in September 2019? What did two decades of renewals, faculty appointments, and 112 clients hide behind a one-piece-of-plastic clue?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that followed that photograph and trace the career it revealed. You will hear how a temporary 18-month orientation badge, a claimed doctoral degree from Vance-Horton University, and a license number issued by the Ohio State Medical Board combined to sustain a private practice and university appointment-and why a single photo began to unravel it all.

Person: Crystal Ann Purdue (also known as Crystal Green)
Location: Crestfield, Ohio
Event: Photograph of a plastic badge taken by a meter reader in September 2019
Case: License number PY748882 issued by the Ohio State Medical Board after a 2000 application
Date: Badge expiration March 2001

- The badge attached to the house listed an expiration date of March 2001 and was 18 years old when photographed.
- Crystal held a client roster of 112 people and ran Green Developmental Associates on Fenwick Court.
- She attended doctoral coursework and passed qualifying exams between 1993 and 1995 but stopped attending in spring 1996 and never submitted a dissertation.
- In August 1999 she attended a five-day practicum orientation at Kellerman Children's Hospital and received a temporary orientation badge.
- She maintained a part-time faculty appointment in the Department of Educational Psychology at Harwick University for nine years as an adjunct clinical instructor.

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